

Amber Heard Met Elon Musk After Johnny Depp Stood Her Up at Met Gala.Elon Musk Says He'll Vote Republican for First Time in Next Election.Elon Musk Reacts to Analysis on Twitter Takeover Hurdle-'Interesting'.or because they're no longer active on Twitter)." SparkToro defines fake followers as "accounts that are unreachable and will not see the account's tweets (either because they're spam, bots, propaganda, etc. Twitter's stock price is now $36.80 per share, significantly less than the $54.20 per share that Musk has offered. There has been speculation that Musk may be using the fake accounts issue to negotiate a better deal for Twitter. Musk initially responded to Agrawal's 13-tweet thread with a poop emoji and later wrote: "So how do advertisers know what they're getting for their money? This is fundamental to the financial health of Twitter." The Twitter CEO also said the company has estimated "every quarter" that less than five percent of monetizable daily active users (mDAU) were spam accounts.
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We also lock millions of accounts each week that we suspect may be spam, if they can't pass human verification challenges (captchas, phone verification, etc)," Agrawal wrote. "We suspend over half a million spam accounts every day, usually before any of you even see them on Twitter.
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He and Agrawal exchanged a series of tweets about the issue of fake accounts on Monday.

It is not clear how Musk arrived at the 20 percent figure. This deal cannot move forward until he does." "Yesterday, Twitter's CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%. "My offer was based on Twitter's SEC filings being accurate," Musk wrote. Musk, the world's richest man, claimed that 20 percent of Twitter accounts were "fake/spam accounts" and that figure was "4 times what Twitter claims, could be *much* higher." An audit has found that almost half of Biden's followers on Twitter are fake. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, to send a letter to Dorsey urging him to work with the FBI and the Justice Department on ways to improve Twitter's security.US President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the National Peace Officers Memorial Service at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2022. Just last year, the account of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was broken into a nd used to tweet racist and vulgar comments. This is hardly the first time hackers have created mischief on Twitter. "This appears to be part of a larger issue that Twitter is facing," a spokesperson for the billionaire said in a statement. Gates, who has become one of the world's leading philanthropists since stepping down as Microsoft CEO, confirmed the tweet wasn't from him. Tesla didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The same bogus offer cropped up a second time on Musk's account, which has a history of sometimes befuddling tweets from the eccentric billionaire. The three men are worth a combined $362 billion, according to the latest calculations by Forbes magazine. At some point during the day, roughly half that sum in bitcoin was withdrawn from the account.īezos, Gates and Musk are among the 10 richest people in the world, with tens of millions of followers on Twitter. By the end of the day, it had received almost 12.9 bitcoins, an amount currently valued at slightly more than $114,000. The Bitcoin account mentioned in the fake tweets appears to have been created on Wednesday. heads into the 2020 presidential election, a contest in which the service is likely to play an influential role. The hack might also be a simple demonstration of Twitter's weak security controls as the U.S. elections through social media tampering and various hacks, including targeting the various campaigns and major party organizations. intelligence agencies established that Russia engaged in coordinated attempts to interfere in those U.S. It also temporarily blocked verified users from tweeting while the company investigated the issue.Īmong the political figures targeted, the hack mostly appeared to target Democrats or other figures on the left, drawing comparisons to the 2016 campaign. The company said it immediately locked down the affected accounts and removed the tweets posted by the attackers. They were then used to take control of many high-profile and verified accounts and tweet from them. In several tweets, Twitter said it believes the incident was a "coordinated social engineering attack" that targeted some of its employees with access to internal systems and tools.
